He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
("Moby-Dick")
More Quotes from Herman Melville:
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.Herman Melville
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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We cannibals must help these Christians.
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The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.
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I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
Herman Melville
And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
Herman Melville
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